THE MERCENARIES
The Last Resident in a Tourist Town (Spare Me)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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Goofy, happy-sounding rock music with a nice beat and good instrumentation and lyrics about being a working stiff, love, and confusion with the world in general. There's not a lot here that makes this band stand out from other good bar bands that do this kind of standard rock, but they are pleasant to listen to, even when they're trying to be too serious to take seriously, like in the horn-driven, hook-laden, infectiously happy-sounding song about child abuse called "Brand New Dad," or in their one bad attempt at reggae music, "Big 4 Inch."

[Pick this up at www.the-mercenaries.com.]

© 2003 - Holly Day